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O'DEYER's failure to prosecute ANASTASIA while O' DWYER was Brooklyn District Attorney. Allegations were mace by Republican mayor candidate EDWARD CORSI that O'DWYER and the Brooklyn Prosecutor's Office were guilty of gross laxity, inefficiency and mal-administration in a failure to prosecute the subject. ANASTASIA's Further allegations were made were on May l, police wanted card was removed from police file, 1942. It is to be further nd&ed that BENE a long time associate of the subject and for of tne Sancor Corporation, is currently confined in New York City Jail awaiting trial for the garment district murder of union organizer WILLIAM LURGE in May 1949. For mer Mayor WILLIAM O'DWYER gave testimony in the 6th hcaring of the Senate Crime I,vestigating Committee at United States Courthouse, Foley:Square, concerning his reasons for not prosecuting ALBERT ANASTASIA. These reasons all center asout the fact that RuL=S was the main State witness against ALA IA and as a result of his, RELES', death the indictment was dismissed. According to B.B, TURKOS, RELES, Murder, Inc. inforrant, stated prior to his death at the Half Moon Hotel, that ALozRT AKASASIA was the boss of Murder, Inc. and that no murder could be committed without ALBERT ANASTASIA's permission. EDWARD A. HEFFERMAN, former Assistant District Attorney uncer WILLIAM O'DWYER, testified before the New York City Crime Commission racket investigation on December 17, 1952 that in the gang murder of longshoreman PETER PANTO, he had received information from ALBE:iT ANNENBAUN, one of the informants of Murder, Inc. that MENDY WEISS admitted mugging PANTO inthe home of JAMES “Dirty Jaen in New Jersey in 1949 in the company of thé Ssubjec ALBERT ANASTASIA has appeared before several Crime Commissions of the Federal Government and the State -b6=